Hengkai (Gary) Pan

email: hengkaip [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu

I’m an incoming PhD student at Princeton, advised by Prof. Dhruv Shah and Prof. Anirudha Majumdar.

Previously, I was an MSR student at CMU RI, working with Prof. Deepak Pathak. Before that, I worked with Jeff Cui and Gaoyue Zhou under the supervision of Prof. Lerrel Pinto.

I work on world models and representation learning.

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Research

Nano World Models
Nano World Models: A Minimalist Implementation of Future Video Prediction
Siqiao Huang, Partha Kaushik, Michael Chen, Hengkai Pan, Omar Chehab, Fernando Moreno-Pino, Max Simchowitz
arXiv, 2026
project page / arXiv
Foresight
Latent World Models Enhance Imitation Learning with Foresight
Hengkai Pan, Gaoyue Zhou, Yann LeCun, Lerrel Pinto, Deepak Pathak
In submission, 2025
project page
ViPRA
ViPRA: Video Prediction for Robot Actions
Sandeep Routray, Hengkai Pan, Unnat Jain, Shikhar Bahl, Deepak Pathak
ICLR, 2026
project page / arXiv
DINO-WM
DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning
Gaoyue Zhou, Hengkai Pan, Yann LeCun, Lerrel Pinto
ICML, 2025
project page / arXiv
DynaMo
DynaMo: In-Domain Dynamics Pretraining for Visuo-Motor Control
Zichen Jeff Cui, Hengkai Pan, Aadhithya Iyer, Siddhant Haldar, Lerrel Pinto
NeurIPS, 2024
project page / arXiv
Pancreatic cystic lesions follow-up
Patient and lesion characteristics associated with follow-up completion for pancreatic cystic lesions detected on MRI
Chenchan Huang, Nitya L Thakore, Yiqiu Shen, Ebrahim K Rasromani, Bryce A Saba, Jonah M Levine, Sophia M Jacobi, Runhan Chen, Hengkai Pan, Stella K Kang
Abdominal Radiology, 2025
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BURExtract-Llama
BURExtract-Llama: An LLM for Clinical Concept Extraction in Breast Ultrasound Reports
Yuxuan Chen, Haoyan Yang, Hengkai Pan, Fardeen Siddiqui, Antonio Verdone, Qingyang Zhang, Sumit Chopra, Chen Zhao, Yiqiu Shen
ACM Multimedia Computing for Health and Medicine, 2024
arXiv

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